Environment Committee on Dec. 11th, 2018

Evidence of meeting #138 for Environment and Sustainable Development in the 42nd Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was fuels.

A recording is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Forestry, Agriculture and Waste

Committee Business

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Chair Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)

Robert Coulter Vice-President, First Carbon Credits Corporation

Ted Falk Provencher, CPC

Mark Warawa Langley—Aldergrove, CPC

Kristin Baldwin Director, Stakeholder Relations, Agricultural Institute of Canada

Doug Hooper Director, Policy and Regulations, Advanced Biofuels Canada

Julie Dzerowicz Davenport, Lib.

Wayne Stetski Kootenay—Columbia, NDP

5 p.m.

Director, Stakeholder Relations, Agricultural Institute of Canada

Kristin Baldwin

I think the single most important thing that the government could do would be to increase its support for science and innovation, and perhaps look at it from a whole-of-government approach. We're fortunate enough to have a number of government departments that support science and innovation. There's Agri-Food Canada, Environment Canada, Innovation and Science. Investing strategically in certain areas to help the technology move forward would perhaps be useful, but it's also important to incentivize the adoption by the end-user, because it's great to have these technologies but if they're not actually being used, then they're not actually having an impact.

Does that answer your question?

5 p.m.

Kootenay—Columbia, NDP

Wayne Stetski

I think so, yes.

I have a quick question for Mr. Coulter, if I might.

I used to work down in the Lower Mainland with provincial parks, and I worked with a fellow by the name of Ed Kelly, who I believe was from the Sto:lo Nation. I'm just wondering, do you know Ed? Is he still with us?

5 p.m.

Vice-President, First Carbon Credits Corporation

Robert Coulter

I don't. I had some meetings down there on an energy efficiency project that we were doing, but I didn't run across him in the early days of climate change.

Yes, many of us are still around. What are we still doing? That's the issue.

5 p.m.

Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)

The Chair

Thank you, Mr. Stetski.

5 p.m.

Kootenay—Columbia, NDP

Wayne Stetski

All right. Thank you.

5 p.m.

Mr. John Aldag (Cloverdale—Langley City, Lib.)

The Chair

With that, I would like to thank the three witnesses today for the excellent testimony that you've given us, and with that we're going to suspend the meeting for a few minutes. We'll clear the room, keep the members back here and go into a closed meeting in a minute.

[Proceedings continue in camera]